Magni Bronzebeard

The first two trailers for World of Warcraft: The War Within kick off with quite a bang, introducing us to several of the expansion's power players -- including ones who are technically still absent, who we haven't seen in a while, or who've just gotten a serious glow-up.

We've been wondering for a while what World of Warcraft's patch 8.3 would be about, especially after the end of the War Campaign in patch 8.2.5, and now we know.

Maybe you already knew that in patch 8.1.5 the Titan construct MOTHER meets up with Magni Bronzebeard in an attempt to save Azeroth.

Battle for Azeroth officially hits the servers at 3 P.M. Pacific -- but where should you be in-game if you want to get started right away? 

Blizzard has just given us a solid set of details about the Heart of Azeroth, Battle for Azeroth's equivalent of Legion's Artifact weapons. Most importantly, we'll be getting the Heart before Battle for Azeroth launches -- in fact, Magni Bronzebeard will give it to us after the Battle for Lordaeron.

Update: This quest chain is now live -- and it'll max out your Artifact entirely. Enjoy your superpowers!

Update: With the patch due out today on North American realms, we thought you might want a refresher of patch highlights.

We've been talking about Dark Iron Dwarves the last couple of weeks.

One of the big new systems coming in with Battle for Azeroth is the Heart of Azeroth.

The pre-patch 7.3 festivities have started, leading us into the events that will take us to Argus when the patch goes live.